New Album Preview
Files in Space is out on Sunday! 13 brainblasting songs from smart-soft to stoopid-hard, with bombastic FM megamix pool party stompers inbetween. Teletext techno, skanör electro, amiga rock, skweee, monster pop, dinosaur drone, and so on.
Here’s a 5-minute mash-up of all the songs (and data) on the album. It’s a cassette and “digital download”, released at Data Airlines. Don’t miss out!
Big <3 to iLKke for the design.
Enjoy the Science – Out Now
Today Enjoy the Science is out, with bleepish covers of Depeche Mode songs from the 8 Bit Operators. I’ve remixed my own C64-remix of Boys Say Go from way back when. Fonky & freaky!
Other artists on the compilation include gwEm, Herbert Weixelbaum, Aonami, Bacalao, Gameboy Music Club, Firestarter, and many others. So don’t say no, boys say go!
Get all the linkage around on this page, or head to Bandcamp for easy listening.
10 Years of Skweeeeeee, Göteborg
Tonight in Göteborg: MAJLS X FLOGSTA DANSHALL mega party. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the legendary skweee label Flogsta Danshall, and the release of the double-LP Museum Of Future Sound IV, here is a party for you.
I’m playing along with Mesak, V.C., Rigas den Andre, and secret guests. Total skweee elite! Here is the Facebook-event, and make sure to e-mail info@majls.se with your name if you want to attend.
Norwegian Kids Funk 1814
Eidsvoll 1814 is a Norwegian museum, obsesssed with the year 1814. They’ve made a video with kids talking about important things and it was just published on the local newspaper’s YouTube channel. The spasmofunky music was made by me. In 1814. Video by Øivind Strand Sandbu.
Solenoid
aanaaanaaanaaana’s Manifesto Mix
aanaaanaaanaaana has made this mix and released it at NTWRK, and it’s som pretty freak-guud stuff. And some of my things. That “Pump up the Warez” song was made in 1997 but is still as fresh as 1988..
00:00 – DJ Krython D – Waves of Ecstasy
01:03 – aanaaanaaanaaana – 2132
02:34 – nq – 15+5
02:58 – Paza – Moduless
04:06 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Vijbild Camel
04:38 – Goto80 – Pump Up The Warez
05:33 – Lil B – Fuck KD
05:43 – Josstintimberlake – ODB vs C64
07:06 – Bruno – Hits-90 v2
07:58 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Dan
10:05 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Vijbild Duck
10:17 – Bit Shifter – Reformat The Planet x Boredoms – Acid Police
11:51 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Men Are From Mars So Why Don’t They Go Back there
11:35 – Dizzy – Lompakko
12:45 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Men Are From Mars So Why Don’t They Go Back there
13:11 – Dizzy – Lompakko
13:43 – Africanboy – LIDL
15:35 – I, Cactus – Green Cactus
18:01 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Wabbly Moonlet x Iggy Azalea – My World
18:59 – Lil B – Fuck KD
19:10 – Goto80 and Raquel Meyers – Animal Romantics (Amiga Version)
20:14 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Ceremonial Sword
21:22 – Alex Mauer – Superball
23:55 – Goto80 and Acid Terrorist – Sword Step
26:14 – Lil Wayne – Go DJ (ant1 remix)
26:31 – Jim Johnston – Scotty 2 Hotty Titantron
27:24 – aanaaanaaanaaana – Ronald Sighs
Faxxx back from the dead
Following the success of previous fax performances Fax & frankering for folket at Demoteket and Memoblast at Transmediale, Faxxx Back From the Dead is now live at Click Festival in Denmark. This time we take a step back, so all the content is created by You. So get your fax on at 0045 73738010. Do it now! Before it’s too late!
> More info
> The fax book.
Interviews
I did two interviews recently, which made me think about old interviews I’ve made. Some quick searches made me realise how little of the old stuff is left out there in ze cyberspace. And here I thought that everything is accessible all the time on the internetz?! Hehe. Well, here’s some of the stuff I found:
Enough Records in May 2014. Music economy, netaudio, textmode and releases.
Illarterate, March 2014. Focus on text-mode graphics, especially teletext, and then talk about releases and stuff. And then that Wikipedia page..
Sentireascoltare, 2011. Well-researched interviews with me, 4mat and Pixelh8. In Italian. My answers here.
Plaza+, 2010. About chipmusic as genre & process, and how I relate to that. About immersion rather than appropriation. Some critical words on critical uses of technology.
Indiegames, 2010. With Raquel Meyers in Tokyo.
Scenesat radio, 2010. Mostly scene-related.
TCTD, June 2009 (part 2). History, demoscene, hardware, copyright, live performance…
Solipsistic nation radio, 2006.
Also some mentions:
HOLO 1, May 2014. This phat magazine have a feature on Raquel Meyers so lots of our work is shown and discussed. PETSCII, demos, teletext, motivations, etc.
Arnie Holder said: “For not-necessarily-music inspiration the work from Goto80, Nullsleep, Raquel Meyers, Jacob Remin, and all the projects and artists that surround them are the most fascinating art I’ve ever been exposed to. Cutting-edge got nothin’ on these peeps.”
A Swedish library magazine called Biblioteksbladet (since 1916, yo) mentioned my workshop on C64 music in its October issue. PDF It was in a tiny place called Eksjö, but managed to gather 25 youngsters to learn C64 defMON music!
Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Volume 19 Issue 3 featured an interview with Raquel Meyers about live visuals. She talked about some of the textmode performances and improvisations we’ve done together. Nice to see defMON and PETSCII in a place like that.
Porcupine
This is Porcupine, a small yet fun game that uses two old Amiga songs by me. Requires Unity to run. Released in December 2013.
Hardcore Chipmusic @ Boing Boing
Boing Boing featured my post at Chipflip about hardcore chipmusic. That led to some new contacts to research 8-bit history with, which is always a good thing!
Chipflip was started in 2008 when I did research for a chapter on chipmusic for an academic book on video game music. The blog also has a timeline that contains mostly chipscene-related things but also art, demoscene, hacking, etc. Yeah, and it also works as a sort of music label.